feat: add VerticalPodAutoscaler to csi controller pod

[umagnus]

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feat: add VerticalPodAutoscaler to csi controller pod

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[umagnus]

AKS need to add a label for vpa admission controller webhook to impact csi controller pod in kube-system namespace, referenced to Can admission controller webhooks impact kube-system and internal AKS namespaces, wait for pr:kubernetes/autoscaler#7402 to completed

[voelzmo]

Hey, I came here via the reference in the VPA PR.
I see that you're about to use VPA for all the containers in the CSI controller Pod. My understanding is that the resource usage in those containers is usually pretty low – but I don't know the details of the Azure CSI controller.

I'm not sure if you tried this for a longer period of time already in some beta env or have long-term experience with other components with many containers in a single pod, but keep in mind that this change will lead to many additional interruptions for the Pod, as VPA will evict it when the recommendation for a container changes by more than 10% (which happens quickly for these small absolute values). This also happens if e.g. your initial requests are too high and the containers will be scaled down step by step. I'm not sure if those disruptions could become an issue – but if resource usage isn't expected to change much, it may just be better to not have VPA enabled for this and have fewer disruptions.

[andyzhangx]

@voelzmo thanks for the tips. we would like to use VPA mainly for CSI driver controller sidecar containers, the memory usage of those containers would grow dramatically when PV num grows in the cluster, current memory limit 500Mi is far from enough when there are a few thousand PVs in the cluster, in that case, the CSI driver would be OOM, that's the reason we want to use VPA.

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[andyzhangx]

/ok-to-test

[andyzhangx]

is there an easy way to install upstream autoscaler without cloning the whole repo? and it's better installing a stable version instead of master branch

[umagnus]

No, the doc only provides the installation to download the source code of VPA https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/vertical-pod-autoscaler/docs/installation.md#install-command

[andyzhangx]

Note: the script currently reads environment variables: $REGISTRY and $TAG. Make sure you leave them unset unless you want to use a non-default version of VPA.

[umagnus]

we use 1.3.0 version in yaml file now

[andyzhangx]

50G is crazy, 10Gi should be enough now

[umagnus]

done

[andyzhangx]

2025

[umagnus]

done

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